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John William Kniveton

Kniveton, John William, Private, 14409, 10th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Disembarked for service 14th July 1915
Born Bonsall, Derbyshire
Enlisted Derby
Resided Bonsall
Died of wounds 14th October 1917 aged 22
Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial

John William is commemorated on the Midland Railway Memorial as W. Kniveton, he was a Labourer in the Way and Works Department at Matlock Bath Station

1911 Census
A mineral colour labourer
Son of John, a railway platelayer's labourer, and Ann Elizabeth Kniveton, of Clataway, The Green, Bonsall, Derbyshire
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(Article and photograph from the Derbyshire Courier, 30th October 1917)

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